brass
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Is brass a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable, uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.countableuncountableusually
2. (countable, uncountable) A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.countableuncountableusually
3. (music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments.Examples: "A few measures later, the brass comes in strong!"uncountableusually
4. (uncountable) The color of brass.uncountableusually
5. (military, business or other organizations, uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, metonymic) High-ranking officers: the brass hats.Examples: "The brass are not going to like this."; "The brass is not going to like this."; "I don't want to keep the brass waiting, Chief."metonymicallyuncountableusually
6. (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.Examples: "You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!"Synonyms: bronze#Nouninformaluncountableusually
adj (English)
1. (informal) Impertinent, bold: brazen.Examples: "At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough."; "[...] he continued in the same insulting strain. "If you were not quite brass, you would know it is not proper to be making promises you dare not tell of.""; "It was a show of very large and very brass cojones, [...]"informal
2. (slang) Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.Examples: "Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders."; "I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]"; "Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform."slang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To coat with brass.transitive
noun (English)
1. (countable, slang) A prostitute.Examples: "Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses."countableslangusually
adj (English)
1. (slang) Brass monkey; cold.slang
noun (English)
1. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of brace, a traditional unit of measure equivalent to a fathom (6 feet) or about 1.6 m, especially as the Spanish braza and Portuguese braça, also French brasse.Synonyms: bracehistoricalobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary